34 arrested at smaller Halloween celebration

ATHENS, Ohio -- Thirty-four people were arrested Saturday night and early yesterday during the annual Halloween bash on uptown streets, police said.

ATHENS, Ohio -- Thirty-four people were arrested Saturday night and early yesterday during the annual Halloween bash on uptown streets, police said.

More than 20,000 people had been expected to attend the giant costume party, but the crowd seemed smaller and more mellow than in previous years, Chief Rick Mayer said in a release.

At least seven of 12 people arrested Friday night were Ohio University students, but the number of students arrested the next night was not available yesterday, police said.

Of the Saturday arrests, 28 were on charges of disorderly conduct and 11 for underage alcohol consumption. Other arrests concerned drug trafficking, public urination and obstructing justice.

At 5:45 a.m. yesterday, Ohio University police responded to a report of an injured man on the South Green. Ilya Gikhman, 18, apparently fell from an elevated sidewalk and injured his head, university officials said in a release.

Gikhman is a freshman at Miami University. He was taken to Grant Medical Center in Columbus, where he was in serious condition yesterday.